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* 24 Poems To Jewish Teachers
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PAINTER ONE WITH HIS PAINTING
The painter's smock is daubed
with the pastels of his palate.
He has become one with his painting.
While his portrait is concentrated
and Virgo specific
his abstract smock is light-full
and Pisces pacific.
(to Marvin Katz. fruitarian, philosophy teacher, one of 6
professors of his university dept. fired for early opposition
to the Vietnam War)
*
DAVID SPITZ
*
Only the maker can make
the shoe.
Only the wearer
can tell if it fits.
This is the argument
for democracy..
said to his students
David Spitz.
Footnote:
* Dr Spitz taught his students that
the US Senate, Supreme Court, electoral college, and
United Nations were inherently undemocratic.
The Senate gives 600,000 in Wyoming the same
power as the 42,000,000 in California. The Supreme
Court is the only unelected branch of government and
grants a seat for life to justices. The UN's Security Council gives veto power to certain countries only, based not on 1 person 1 vote but the winners of World War II.
*
JEWISH UNHUNTER
God's lightning cleaved
the heaven's asunder..
and out of them
God spake in thunder...
There is no such
thing
as a Jewish hunter!
(to D Wasserman
and C Stahler)
THE TORAH SAYS TO FEED ANIMALS FIRST
*
The Torah
says to feed ones
animals before
oneself.
They are voiceless
and need help
in bringing food
down from the shelf.
**
to D and H Newman who follow
this command in their lives.
DANDELION DIASPORA
*
The rain, weed-wed,
has
multiplied
these
gray haired flakeheads
and now
dandelion seeds float in the air..
by the Bubble Blower sent aloft..
which ones will mystically touchdown..
to root in our hearts?
(to all who were touched by
the compassion of Jan Hirsch Ennis)
*
TEACHING TOUCH
The only way to teach
is the heart to touch
(to Amos Oz)
(Course In Miracles: Teach only
love for that is what you are)
*
STAR OF DAVID
A jeweled whole
is the
hexagonal flake
of snow
When the sun shines,
it melts and flows.
The Star of David
sees in each a Godglow
and to merge with all
and grow.
NOT IN CHAOTIC SHARDS
*
Not in chaotic shards
do dandelion seeds
burst from their ball.
Each part as perfect
as the whole.
Each each contains
the all.
*
PATTERNS IN RAIN'S PATTER
*
Patterns in rain's patter
design in all desire
beckonings in the beacons
of primordial fire
We go by much too fast
the hidden gate to see
Millions of frequencies
we can't receive on the tv.
Things shook the world
too subtle to perceive
Milton's kind smile
Milton's sweet gentle soul
Melded stars a
quadrillion miles away
To make him stay on the stage
God made him believe the play.
*
(to Milton Radney, a vegetarian
cab driver in NYC before
becoming a very successful
entrepreneur, a man pf imoversal
empathy who quietly
gave money to thousands
anonymously, including
helping Arabs with their
businesses.)
*
ABSALOM
*
Oh Absalom
Oh Absalom
we will not bid you
goodbye
but say shalom
*
NORTH AND SOUTH
*
If Absalom had cut
his hair it would not
have caught on the branches
of a tree.
If Samson had not cut
his hair he would not
have lost strength
to Delilah's wiles.
For each soul God
has a different path.
*
MARVIN KATZ
*
He expanded so many
from affection
for dogs and cats
to a love encircling
all beings..
did Marvin Katz
*
FIRE IN THEIR EYES
*
She could see
by the new fire
in their eyes
that she had lit
their souls
.. and yet
had not diminished
her own flame
**
to Betty Friedan and to
Doris Haddock, Granny D, who
at the age of 90 walked 3000 miles
across the US to bring about clean $ in America
*
*
DAVID'S MERCY TO GOLIATH
We know not the fruit's hue
from that of the bloom.
Gold tomato blossoms
become red spheres.
The pointed yellow star
becomes the linga
of the cucumber.
The red blood of Nazi
camp suffering
has been transmuted in
most..
to an awesome forgiveness.
By this mercy
did David
convert
the heart of Goliath
*
HELEN SCHUCMAN
Before her rebirth
she saw her parents
making love..
her mother
and father dew bejeweled..
and heard God say
"Do be Jewed"
(Helen Schucman was
the amanuensis of the Course
In Miracles. She heard herself
say to God about her agreement to take
birth "Surely I will go, Father,
for it's for such
a little while."
*
ELOHIM
*
He needn't reach the stars..
stars' light reached to him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him ..... Elohim.
*
HEARTREMAKER
*
Some are heartbreakers
She is a heartremaker.
*
INDELICATESSEN
*
Sheep eyes, corned beef from the muscles,
salami from the intestines,
lamb stew with blood brew..
Not a deli
but an indelicatessen
*
YEHUDI MENUHIN
*
Released from clouds
by peasized dry ice
were thousands of pounds
of snow wedding rice.
Released from clouds
by wee tips of forked lightning
the rain's awesome downpour
.. sky sighed in lightening
The kiss of King Charming
Sleeping Beauty sparked
Total love's touch
to Beloved arced.
The words of the rabbi
resound in the mind
Guru shaktipat
forever opes crown.
The sun's rays
wand alive the iris
Waterdrops waken
the starseeds of Isis.
The notes of
Menuhin's
heartsky piercing violin
cause frozen tears
of pain
uncontrolled to rain.
Shaktipat: Over 20,000 year old Sanskrit word for the touch of the guru which awakens the thousand petaled lotus or the crown chakra.. Yehudi Menuhin was a vegetarian who worked for peace many decades..
*
MEDITATING SUN
*
The sun does nothing
but meditate.. yet flow
his rays
in 360 cubed ways.
He is focused on one
point, but his energy
transforms..
all points.
(to Marty Solomon)
**
SNAPDRAGONS
*
Do snapping turtles
eat snapdragons?
*
THE SUN SPUN
*
The sun
that night did shun
seen everywhere
in trees and flowers spun
*
URI GELLER
He whose mind can bend metal
can defuse a nuclear weapon.
http://www.uri-geller.com
*
COW READING LEVITICUS
*
A gentle cow reading Leviticus
found that cloven hoofed animals
are forbidden as food. She took an
ax to her foot.
*
GOTTLIEB
*
Gottlieb
Gott Lieb
God is free
Whatever is of God
is free
*
MOSES' RED SEA
He keeps holy the Sabbath..
does no usual tasks..
he stands at the edge of the
Red Sea.. and commands
her to pull back on both sides..
... suddenly she is the cloven Red Sea..
he walks across the opened path
... the following day
he lets the ocean of chores
flow back again
(to Richard Schwartz,
author of many works on Judaism
and vegetarianism, which
are available
at http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz
*)
KIRK DOUGLAS
*
His name reminds us
every body is a church..
his an unusually beautiful
one reflecting the intensity
of his will..
his self deprecating humor
melting hearts
*
SID CAESAR
*
Thank you for the delight
you shed with your soul light.
*
ARUN AROSE AWASH IN ROSE
Arun arose awash in rose
His dawn sun oer all arose
Did all arouse.. his rays of rose
. millenial oaks.. the corn in rows
.. and the no-rows wildest rose
*
(to Aaron Rosen.. and to B Jani's son)
(Arun: a word for the sun)
*
ROD SERLING
*
Rod Serling
of soul sterling
Or all the world
his truth is swirling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJYgXXvRSec
Rod Serling's short film about his guru, Man of Miracles,
is free on the internet.
MANY ROLES IN GOD'S PLAY
*
Young souls are ignorant of the gender race and faith
changes made from incarnation to incarnation as
God gives each soul
many roles
in His cosmic plays
unwinding scrolls
(It is the teaching of my gurus that souls incarnated
in Jewish bodies in 1 life... are often nonJewish in
the next and vice versa)
INDELICATESSEN
Sheep eyes, corned beef from the muscles,
salami from the intestines,
lamb stew with blood brew..
Not a deli
but an indelicatessen
HEART ARK
Heark! Heark!
I speak of the
ark
of my friend's heart
Unlike Noah's
it contains all beings
every cockroach
every lark
to Jan F
MOSES ROD IN EACH
Omnipotent God
can cause any rod
to strike fountains
from stone mountains
or the waters of love
which dwell in each heart
WANDERING JEW
The plant
of wandering Jew
has added more
leaves
to his tome
of poems
.. they
are of purple print
on pages of lime
MEDITATING SUN
The sun does nothing
but meditate.. yet flow
his rays
in 360 cubed ways.
He is focused on one
point, but his energy
transforms..
all points.
(to Marty Solomon)
**
Snapdragons
Do snapping turtles
eat snapdragons?
*
Notes:
Of the world's major religions the two most free of Judaophobia are the Buddhist and
the Hindu religions.
http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org The Bible Code was written by someone who passed Hebrew scripture through a computer and then warned the Israeli embassy of the impending assassination of Rabin. Heart Remaker is to Helen Schucman, transcriber of the Course In Miracles and faculty member at Columbia Presbyterian. Dandelion Diaspora is to J Ennis silent workaholic networker and funder of many compassion causes) Elohim is to Rabbi David Rosen, former chief rabbi of Ireland and vegetarian. Painter is to Dr. Marvin Katz, ethics professor, fruitarian, at the University of Akron in the 1960's and an organizer of Akron's international and dietary peace, one of 5 philosophy professors fired for taking a public stand against the war in Vietnam) Jewish Unhunter (dedicated to Debra Wasserman and Charles Stahler of Jewish Vegetarians) http://www.vrg.org
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© Saiom Shriver
Footnote: Marvin Katz, a fruitarian Jewish ethics professor I stood next to at a Vietnam peace vigil in 1965 told me if i protested for nonviolence.. i must begin with my own dinner fork. I teased him.. calling him a pig lover .. one could tell his truth arrows hit their mark by the shrieks of this victim.. I never had a chance to tell him that 6 months later I finally stopped resisting..for he was fired along with the other 5 members of the philosophy department for taking a public stand against the war in Vietnam. The transition was much easier than i thought it would be.. after the 1st day I never wanted flesh again. The addiction chain of stronger-than-caffein uric acid or trixoypurine was broken. http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org The Bible Code was written by someone who passed Hebrew scripture through a computer and then warned the Israeli embassy of the impending assassination of Rabin Heart Remaker is to Helen Schucman, transcriber of the Course In Miracles and faculty member at Columbia Presbyterian. Dandelion Diaspora is to Jan Hirsch Ennis silent workaholic networker and funder of many compassion causes Elohim is to Rabbi David Rosen, former chief rabbi of Ireland and vegetarian. Jewish Unhunter (dedicated to Debra Wasserman and Charles Stahler of Jewish Vegetarians) http://www.vrg.org
. absalom.
. cow reading leviticus
. dandelion diaspora
. david spitz
. david's mercy to goliath
. elohim
. fire in their eyes
. heart remaker
. helen schucman
. indelicatessen
. jewish unhunter
. marvin katz
. meditating sun
. moses' red sea
. north and south
. not in chaotic shards
. painter one with
his painting
. patterns in rain's patter
. rod serling
. snapdragons
. the spun sun
. the torah says to
feed animals before
the self
. uri geller
. yehudi menuhin
